Well, I’ve achieved one of my goals for the year: submit 60 short stories to anthologies and magazines. Time to up that goal to 75.
On my other two short story goals for the year – write 15 stories, and have 15 stories on submission at one time – I’m doing less well. I’ve written 10 and have 8 currently on submission. This is mainly because I’ve been writing novels instead, though, so I’m not crushed under the weight of my own failure or anything.
http://csidemedia.com/shortstories/goals-aspirations-and-achievements/
Congrats!
I’m terrible about keeping my stuff in submission. Finding appropriate markets, formatting and reformatting to their specifications, and tracking . . .it all takes so much time. And I’d rather be writing new things.
All that is to say that I’m impressed by your efforts and inspired to try to do better on that front myself. Getting your work out there is a huge piece of the puzzle we call writing life.
I use The Submission Grinder (thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com) to find markets and for tracking. I seldom have to reformat stuff, except to remove my name if it’s a blind sub. Most places that anyone professional would want to submit to are looking for standard manuscript format.
So how many sales (I. E. For $$)? How many accepted? I assume some subs were the same story… not all new stories/submissions.
In any case congrats. I get very sick of the submission/rejection game.
Three sales so far this year, which is down on last year’s 8. I”m submitting more ambitiously, to more prestigious markets, is probably part of the difference.